r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 22h ago
PoliticalTea š³ļø The blame game...
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u/Extension_Way_621 22h ago
and the best part? majority of texas voters fall for that dumb shit over and over, thats how theyve managed to stay in power for over 30 years.
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u/FiveCrappedPee 22h ago
Republicans are stupid. Texas Republicans are on another planet of stupid entirely. I sadly, unfortunately, lived there for a couple years.
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u/Apprehensive_Door249 22h ago
My brother and I live in Houston. He was in line for early voting and he said he could hear maga dumb shits talking about ādemocrats have ruined Texasā. There is absolutely no limit to their stupidity
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u/honoringanderson24 7h ago
I'd say it's time for us to interject when we hear this kind of stupid shit, but there's that concealed carry thing that holds me back...
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u/bones7056 13h ago
I've lived in many super red states in rural areas, its the same coast to coast. Texas is a bit more proud of how stupid they are thats it. When a community sees intelligence as a negative its not usually a good sign.
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u/PipePistoleer 21h ago
As George Carlin said, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." Texas twist makes it more 3/4. The stupidity is a mix of voting for your own destruction and oppression, and also not voting.
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u/Cautious-Respond-402 21h ago
"I just don't understand, I keep voting for republicans and nothing good happens and I just can't get anywhere". "I guess I'll just half to vote republican again"!
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u/AgitatedMachine1189 22h ago
They've managed to stay in power because too many people choose not to decide
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u/InGordWeTrust 12h ago
Alberta has had Conservative rule for the last 100 years. Still don't own a refinery. They blame all the problems on the Liberals. It's fucking sad and pathetic.
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u/Munnin41 16h ago
Don't leave out the dumb democrats for not bothering to vote because "it's a lost cause anyway". Less than half of eligible voters turned up in 2024. With some effort you could flip Texas.
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u/mightyjoe227 22h ago
Who would continue to hire someone for more than 30 years that does not fix anything.
Repubes have had Texas for to long not to fix anything but their bank accounts.
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u/lovesfatchiks 22h ago
Dumbasses would keep hiring them.
As long as you can convince the dumbasses that anyone else is a satanist commie who will kill your children, they will continue to vote for these greedy, thieving pedophiles.
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u/Adept-Garbage1987 21h ago
I had no idea that people in Texas were this stupid... It's honestly a little sad
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u/hunnyflash 16h ago
It's the culture. It's such a hyper-individualized, literally pull yourself up by your bootstraps culture that will only change with time.
Texas government was specifically made to be confusing, bloated, and ridiculous, and Texans have no desire to change any of it because they elect their friends and family to the hundreds of positions local, county, and statewide, and if they personally are doing okay, then they see no need for change.
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u/Witty_Run7509 15h ago
If they are so into pulling themselves with their bootstraps, maybe they should blaming the democrats for their problems and man up
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u/Far_Lead4180 8h ago
Republicans are NOT individualists, they say that because itās cool, but in reality they are the uber-conformists threatened by everything outside of their narrow world view. They follow each other in lockstep even when what theyāre following is irrational. Theyāre as individualist as drone ants.
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u/TootieSummers 21h ago
Theyāre stupid but they know whatās going on. The reality is they are so much more interested in making sure the āwrong peopleā get punished even if it means they get screwed over too. This is something they are totally fine with.
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u/dagoth_ith 12h ago
Look into uvalde and how even though their kids got murdered due to republican policies and inactions, they still voted red...
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u/Ok-Aardvark-6742 19h ago
Intelligence isnāt the issue, voter turnout is. The largest voting bloc in Texas is non-voters. And they donāt vote because over the past 30 or so years, Republicans in power have gerrymandered and suppressed voting to the point where people are hopeless and/or apathetic and genuinely donāt believe their vote will make a difference. This is by design. As a transplant, itās equally wild and sad to see.
Most of the activism here is towards voter registration and turnout because thatās the best shot to flip important seats. The biggest hurdle is convincing people that positive change is realistic to the degree that theyāre willing to jump the hoops the state makes us jump in order to vote.
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u/properpotato10 13h ago
Well when you have generations of misinformation, bigotry, and hatred further burned into the populace itās pretty unavoidable that youād just have a state full of idiots.
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u/BananasPineapple05 22h ago
The cognitive disonance is real with Republicans. And they keep getting away with it, so why would they stop?
If Texans won't teach them a lesson, why would they change their ways?
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u/One_Clown_Short 22h ago
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u/Inside-Out345 22h ago
MAGA PLAYBOOK IS TO CONVINCE YOUR CONSTITUENTS THAT IT IS THE FAULT OF THE OTHER GUY
DONāT FALL FOR IT
ITS JUST ANOTHER BIG BEAUTIFUL LIE
VOTE BLUE IN THE MIDTERMS
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u/Captain_Coffee_III 22h ago
They learn from the top. Washington can't stop blaming Biden for everything they've had control over for almost 2 years.
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u/Large-Difference-409 22h ago
Same shit they said they fix day 1
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u/PipePistoleer 21h ago
I mean they made a mess his first term, they just came back to fill up the turd pile.
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u/Jaded_Addendum4040 22h ago
Racist whining POS
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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 22h ago
'Wheels' would NEVER, are you kidding?
It is impossible, oh wait... never mind lol
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u/MixGlittering1652 21h ago
Expand this to the entire country; Congress controlled by GOP, Executive Branch, same. Supreme Court is conservative. Most governorships and state legislatures are GOP-controlled. How can any reasonable (key word) person think the Democrats are responsible for any of our current problems?
I get a particular hoot out of the GOP campaign ads here in Florida promising to reduce taxes, bring down the cost of living, and reduce housing prices. The GOP has controlled both the governorship and legislature since 1999. The problems they keep talking about are issues that occured while they were in charge and are problems they have had more than enough time to fix.
Guess we're not supposed to think about that.
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u/Overall_Koala_8710 20h ago
Someone needs to open a fucking dictionary for these people too.
The conserve in conservative means to try keep things the way they are: shitty.
The progress in progressive means to try to make things better.
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u/MixGlittering1652 19h ago
I've found "conservatives" often times are not. One example: They went on and on about previous Supreme Court decisions were "activist," creating law out of thin air. But.......Recently, the "conservative" court ruled that the President enjoyed limited immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. Nowhere in the Constitution can you find any such idea. In fact, the Constitution specifies that there is "equal protection under the law." Well, if the President enjoys immunity, is that "equal?" Anyway, the entire notion doesn't seem at all conservative.
There is adequate historical record that the Founding Fathers didn't believe the President should be immune from prosecution for crimes comitted in office. Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton (an advocate of a strong Chief Executive) were among them.
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u/Pretend_Ad_8465 14h ago
The reason I am SOOOOO frustrated with Democrats is that they have completely failed to capitalize on these facts. They should be flooding the airwaves pointing out Republican lies and hypocrisy but it's like they just rolled over and died save for a few luminaries like Talarico. Broadcast the obvious, let people know your game plan and maybe this red scourge can be eliminated from Texas once and for all. At the very least Texas with all its diversity should be a purple swing state.
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u/Msagtab 14h ago
They should be flooding the airwaves pointing out Republican lies and hypocrisy
I don't think you realize how unrealistic this is. This takes money. That's sort of the entire reason our Democracy in this country got turned to shit with Citizen's United. Turns out billionaires and big lucrative industries have a lot more money to throw at whatever party is going to be nicer and bend over to their demands. This is the Republican party they're dealing with, they'll do literally anything and aren't tethered to any political morals or ideals. Democrats will never have the same money at their disposal. So Republicans have the money to flood the airwaves, Democrats pretty much don't, as far as fundraising they have to rely a lot more on spam campaigns that annoy the shit out of even the constituents that vote blue. Hell, even that takes money.
On top of that, as we've already established Texas is Republican controlled. This can manifest against Democrats in several forms. This cycle we've seen Gina Hinojosa struggle to get information out to the public about texts between Abbott and Musk. She basically has to challenge a Republican government to rule against their own party in a timely fashion. In 2019 there was an AI ad challenge that took way too long to get anywhere because Republican created deepfakes were being used to smear a Democratic candidate. Prior to that Paxton filed a lawsuit as AG against a Democrat organization that made ads on a bunch of horseshit reasons that would never happen to Republicans. They control the government and have all of the ability to make sure they don't have to play fair while the Democrats are hamstrung.
Now if that weren't enough, most stations, at least in my area, are owned by Conservative media concerns. This obviously presents another layer of challenges.
So I hear what you're saying but I think it's steeped in the kind of narrow scope of typical leftist concerns directed at their own party that ignore the real mechanics of the bigger picture.
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u/MindFucker79 22h ago
Itās really hard for a man who has sued himself into wealth to take the blame for his failures.
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u/JustinKase_Too 21h ago
You can also add :
- The President is republican
- Congress is controlled by republicans
- Senate is controlled by republicans
- SCOTUS is majority republican appolintees
This mess is 100% gop.
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u/txcreative20 22h ago
Republicans remind me those fat bullfrogs they sit back and chirp do nothing .
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u/Oneironautomatist 12h ago
Democrats in Texas need to be putting postcards with this image on them in the mailboxes of all Texans. The mail I get from Republicans is voluminous and insane.
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u/krazylegs36 22h ago
Yeah, but this is the price you pay for having a world-class power grid that never fails.
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u/dontrelyonme 22h ago edited 21h ago
Just moved to TX last year (not by choice). Was studying the ballot last weekend. Was surprised that all nine justices on the TX supreme court are republicans. Was even more surprised to find out that the candidates for my district and county positions are pretty much all republicans. FFS.
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u/duochimo 21h ago
I have a neighbor with a sign that says "Save Texas: Vote Republican" and it's taking everything in me not to knock on his door and tell him that if Texas needs saving that would imply that the Republicans in power for all these decades are failing.
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u/billhorstman 21h ago
Reminds me of our Federal Government.
Republicans control the Executive Branch, Republicans control the Legislative Branch, Republicans control the Judiciary Branch, but the Republicans blame everything that is going wrong in the United States on the Democrats, especially Biden, Obama, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, and practically every other Democrat since WW-II.
When will the Republicans finally realize that they are part (or even most) of the problem??
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u/Inside-Out345 22h ago
MAGA PLAYBOOK IS TO CONVINCE YOUR CONSTITUENTS THAT IT IS THE FAULT OF THE OTHER GUY
DONT FALL FOR IT
VOTE FOR CHANGE
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u/Abacabisntanywhere 22h ago
MAGA in a nutshell. We are not the problemā¦they (Dems, Illegals. communists, socialists. Iranians, Ukrainians, Canadians, French, Muslims, Somalians, etc) are the reason you made poor decisions.
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u/Dharmabud 21h ago
The sad thing is that people believe this shit. The republicans know that if you repeat a lie over and over people will eventually believe them.
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u/NotRadTrad05 21h ago
You ignore Republicans have controlled Texas for 30 years. Surely the Texas doge was looking for a trace of democrat corruption still persisting..
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u/Healthy_Ad_6171 21h ago
Mr. Puffiness wants to redo his office to the tune of $3 million. You know, the guy that wants to DOGE Texas.
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u/kingwood707 15h ago
lies.........it's the only thing the republicans have in this election. well that, and over $300 million of Elon Musks. money
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u/MoonLight4323 14h ago
Every day I ask myself how low Americans can sink, every day, I'm surprised. Trump could ... a child on live TV and Magas would cheer him on...
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u/AcademicRuin3087 13h ago
I'm in Texas and it is trash here sometimes. Ugh. Some of these people are so like invested in their political identity being a part of them they can't see clearly.
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u/Global-Assumption913 12h ago
Get out and vote. Simple. Tell friends and family, and anyone else you may know, to go vote. Donāt wait until 11/3 to vote. Do it now. Polls arenāt always accurate. Win by 5 pts or 10 pts. Donāt be complacent. And for godās sake, go vote. Got it? You canāt convince all of a certain group that its entire identity is based upon falsehoods and corruption. Donāt waste your breath and energy there. Just go vote and get others to vote. As someone once said, āWalk softly and carry a big āgo voteā sign.ā
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u/Firstnaymlastnaym 12h ago
Same with Nebraska. Pillen says it's time to "get to work to fix our state." Motherfucker, YOUR party has been in power for like fifty years. YOU are the problem!
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u/Munchi1011 7h ago
To all my fellow Texans: VOTE FOR JAMES TALARICO AND GINA HINOJOSA PLEASE!
The only way we can escape this terrible cycle is by voting for people who ACTUALLY CARE about the general population of Texas. Not the jokers who focus on non-issues like boys in girls sports or myths like schools force transitioning kids (this does not happen. If you dropped off a boy at school and picked up a girl after, you got the wrong kid. Put them back and get your own child you irresponsible chuds)
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u/nobodyspecial712 3h ago
Someday people will realize that it doesn't matter who is in power, We The People get screwed and extorted under threat of violence.
The government is a mafia-style protection racket. Pay up, or else.
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u/onedumninja 22h ago
The whole federal gov't is nazi too. After 2 full years of complete nazi control, life is worse by every metric. And these dorks will still believe it's some how brown people and liberals who are at fault. Insanity and stochastic terrorism are too alluring for the fool.
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u/Alternative_Life9414 22h ago
And they say to vote republican because they're the only ones who can fix the problems.
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u/Slight_Tomatillo5680 21h ago
They'll keep feeding people dogsh*t until people stop slopping it up.
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u/ArjunaIndrastra 21h ago
Three decades of GOP control and they blame everyone under the sun for the problems in Texas other than themselves. This is why they're terrified of the midterm results right now.
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u/bernd1968 21h ago
Republicans tell you that government doesnāt work, elect them and they will prove it
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u/No-Cat-2980 21h ago
Texas Republicans in power for 30+ years but want to blame anybody but themselves. Oh Please vote for us, weāll fix everything, we promise. LIES, LIES, LIES!
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u/Extension_Ad2635 21h ago
Because he knows Texans will believe him...they don't want to admit the Blue Wave is coming.
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u/muFUtaco 20h ago
Which points out that republicans are liars and do not take responsibility for their actions.
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u/Jobwastes 19h ago
This isn't the gotcha you are looking for.
Austin, Houston, and Houston all have Democratic mayors. Dallas has a mayor that was a Demcrat at one point, while El Paso's registered as a Democrat before taking a nonpartisan position. Also, Austin and Houston, along with many others, have a Democratic leaning city councils.
Texans also think they are better than everyone else, so many want to curtail progressive influences, whetherit be school boards or federal authorities.
Texas isn't purple by any means, but Republicans hate their Democratic peers and constituents. Furthernore, you can't scream that Texas is going to flip in one breath, and then say it is like 100% red in another.Ā Get your talking points in order.
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u/NOLA2Cincy 19h ago
Same in Ohio and the R's have held the trifecta for two decades. Republican voters are just stupid.
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u/CaptianTumbleweed 19h ago
Lived in Texas for a while and have relatives there. This I know for sure:
- They are the nicest of people
- Their religion and culture together makes a special kind of ignorance you donāt see many places.
- Fucking great BBQ.
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u/Winstonsphobia 19h ago
And his supporters are stupid enough to believe it.
Iāve been voting since the 1970s. During all that time, Republicans have won elections by suppressing voters and blaming minority groups. Democrats have won elections by trying to fix problems. Unfortunately, trying to fix problems has never been as effective an electoral strategy as scapegoating and voter suppression.
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u/20ontheDropBear 18h ago
Republicans donāt want things to get better, they want you to die.
Republicans are a death cult. The endgame is literally just death.
They want so many American citizens dead because of what they look like, how they worship, or who they love.
And the rest they want so miserable in life that they will themselves long for death.
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u/that0nemook 18h ago
If Uvalde didn't move the needle, nothing will. Let the imbecilic masses lie in the bed they made
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u/TXbeatsyouinafight 17h ago
Old Fashioned Dan is a Republican. Old Fashioned Dan made this decision for you:
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u/Justaticklerone 17h ago
Remember how Texans used to be much smarter when Ann Richards was in charge? Then they voted for Dubya in '96, and it's been downhill ever since.
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u/Confident-Outcome358 15h ago
This is learned behavior. They learned it by getting away with it in prior elections because American voters be dumb. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
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u/RoosterzRevenge 15h ago
Except they don't. They run on continuing the great success the state has been having.
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u/Weird-Barracuda-2352 15h ago
Yeah its Texas.
When i lived in the bay area they blamed republicans when the dems held every office
Just stupid fkn politics
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u/opdollar 15h ago
Funny in Michigan the the Dems have ruled for 20+ years and they always blame the republicans. They both play the game and it costs everyone except them.
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u/PanteraOne 14h ago
The Republican party is the enemy of U.S. citizens, and needs to permanently dissolve at this point.
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u/tom1986ca 14h ago
And republican voters will believe him because they're gullible š¤·
There's a reason they just openly lie.
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u/1Harvey2Trent3Temple 14h ago
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell, 1984
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u/NoSoyTuPotato 14h ago
Ted Cruz is the biggest proof that you can indeed āMess with Texasā heās been fleecing them for years while being the biggest wuss in US politics
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u/JustMeandI1976 22h ago
Texans, how are you all accepting this?